Source books · Grimoires and ritual magic
Lemegeton
Lemegeton vel Clavicula Salomonis Regis
How this book fits
- Traditions
- Grimoires and ritual magic
- Role in the tradition
- Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
- Public attention
- Major Wikipedia has an article about it in 24 languages.
Read it
- Peterson's edition ↗ esotericarchives.com checked September 11, 2026
- The Goetia, Mathers and Crowley ↗ sacred-texts.com checked against the Internet Archive's copy of September 02, 2026, because the site refuses scripts · archived copy
- Read at commons.wikimedia.org ↗ commons.wikimedia.org
- Read at archive.org ↗ archive.org
From Wikipedia
The Lesser Key of Solomon, also known by its Latin title Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis or simply the Lemegeton, is an anonymously authored grimoire on sorcery, mysticism, and magic. It was compiled in the mid-17th century from materials several centuries older.
From the Wikipedia article The Lesser Key of Solomon, revision 1373428516, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q1992642: “anonymous spellbook (grimoire) of the 17th century”.
In this study
In the chronology, among the works with no securely known author.
Five books under one attribution, beginning with the catalogue of seventy-two spirits that later came to overshadow the rest.
Cited for 161 sourced claims here, among them correspondences of Duke, Marquis, President, Earl, King, Prince, Botis and Gaap.